She recalled being sat on a wall and giving him oral sex, before losing consciousness and realising he was having intercourse with her in bushes.

16:05

Case enters final phases tomorrow

The evidence in the trial has now concluded.

The next phases, tomorrow, will involve the prosecution and defence barristers making their closing speeches to the jury before the recorder Mr Feest QC sums up the case in full, including legal directions.

The jury comprising of eight women and four men will then retire to consider its verdicts on two charges of rape.

So that is me signing off for today.

Goodnight from Bristol Crown Court

15:57

"Sex was for her pleasure"

Under cross-examination, O’Driscoll told the jury he didn’t notice the complainant stagger by him in the street that night.

He denied following her and denied that he exaggerated about having ten pints of lager as well as three or so bottles of lager that night.

“I was drunk but not staggering,” he said.

He told the jury he asked the woman: “Do you want to play with this?” before exposing his penis. He then asked her: “Do you want to give me oral sex?”

The woman put his penis in her mouth for half-a-minute he said.

He then tried to have sex with her, but couldn’t get fully sexually aroused.

“I was excited, she was excited and I was enjoying her company,” he said.

He conceded that, with hindsight, the flower bed was an unpleasant place to be for intimacy.

He told the jury: “I licked and sucked her vagina. Then I proceeded to try and have sex with her again. We were both very excited at the time. Sex was for her pleasure.”

O’Driscoll admitted trying to have sex with the woman and recounted how when men appeared on the scene the woman said they were still fine to continue.

He said when he touched the woman intimately she said it hurt and he stopped.

He couldn’t recall the woman falling to her knees, or helping her up.

She didn’t seem “really out of it”, he said, and he didn’t see her eyes rolling to the back of her head.

When police arrived he was on top of her and kissing her, he said, telling the jury she was trying to help him get aroused.

He said prior to the police arriving he told the woman she was “very beautiful” and she said “thanks”.

Mr Barker said: “She was unconscious, wasn’t she?”

O’Driscoll replied: “She wasn’t unconscious. She had her legs round my shoulders when I was giving her oral sex.”

He denied being attracted to her because she was so drunk.

Mr Barker said: “This woman was just a body to have sex with.”

O’Driscoll said: “No she was not. I found her very attractive and she found me very attractive on the night. It was consensual.”

He added that he loved his wife and he was devastated he had had sex with the woman.

O’Driscoll has now finished giving his evidence.

Jason O'Driscoll maintains sex was mutual

15:22

"I ripped off her knickers"

O’Driscoll said he gave the woman oral sex for up to two minutes.

He said he tried to have sex with her in the flower bed, but was unable to get an erection due to drink.

They then lay down on the path between the flower bed and the building and he tried to have sex with her again after ripping off her knickers, he said.

“We were kissing and fondling each other,” he said. “I tried to have sex with her on the pathway.”

O’Driscoll said he then saw eight or ten people at the scene and he told the woman they needed to go somewhere private, but she said it was fine there.

The woman was concerned she had lost her shoes and handbag but O’Driscoll retrieved them.

He said as kissing and fondling resumed he started to give the woman a love bite on her neck but the woman said not to and he stopped.

When he touched her intimately he asked if he was too rough but the woman said she had experienced rougher treatment.

He continued until the woman said it hurt.

He recalled trying to have sex with the woman again in the flower bed, again to no avail due to alcohol.

O’Driscoll said the woman enjoyed intimacy.

He recalled how he was laying down with the woman and he heard someone screaming: “Get up, get up!” before police handcuffed him and arrested him for rape.

At that point he tried to get the woman to confirm consensual intimacy, but she didn’t.

He said at no time did the woman push him away.

He said at the police station he didn’t request a lawyer because he hadn’t done anything wrong.

He told the court he was drunk and the woman was drunk, but not unconscious, and she thanked him when he told her she was very beautiful.

O’Driscoll is now about to be cross-examined by prosecutor Kerry Barker.

Jason O'Driscoll told jury intimacy was mutual (Image: CPS)

15:01

"She put my penis in her mouth"

Father-of-four O’Driscoll said he “drunk” was in Bristol city centre with a friend called Eddie, having had ten pints of lager.

He had come to the city to celebrate his brother-in-law’s 40th birthday

He said he lost his friend in Pryzm night club and got into a taxi, but couldn’t afford the fare to where he was staying in Bristol and got out of the taxi.

He told the jury he returned to the club and his friend was coming out.

He then had a burger, the court heard.

O’Driscoll said a woman approached him at the bus rank and was talking about his Irish accent.

“She was telling me she was out with a guy that night and had mislaid him,” he said. “She looked pretty normal to me. She was drunk but not falling over drunk. We just hit it off.”

O’Driscoll said they tried to find the woman’s friend in the fountains area before sitting down at the bus stop.

“I remained seated,” he said. “She came over to me and said she Ioved the Irish accent. She sat on top of my lap and I proceeded kissing.

“We were kissing each other, French kissing.

“She had a leg both sides of me. I placed my hands around her thighs and I was rubbing them up and down. I was rubbing her bum.”

When his friend went home he decided to stay with the woman as he was enjoying it, said O’Driscoll, who is married with four children.

There was then a mutual decision by him and the woman to go somewhere quieter, he said.

He told the court: “We were kissing and hugging each other and everything was mutual between us. She was very attractive.”

They left the fountains and went up against a flower bed, where they kissed and fondled.

He said: “There was nothing said. It was kissing and groping. I asked her for oral sex. She bent down and put my penis in her mouth.

“She was kneeling.”

O’Driscoll said he couldn’t get an erection.

He said when the oral sex finished they moved positions and the woman lay back in to the flower bed and he performed oral sex on her.

“She seemed to be really enjoying it,” he said.

Broad Quay House in court case against Jason O'Driscoll who is accused of rape (Image: CPS)

14:27

Case due to continue shortly

This morning the jury was read an interview in which Jason O’Driscoll said he met a woman in the city centre and they kissed before having consensual sex in a flower bed.

The time has come for his opportunity to give the jury his side of the story.

The judge has just come into court and an usher has been sent to collect the jury.

Jason O'Driscoll is accused of rape (Image: CPS)

12:58

"She never said stop"

O’Driscoll said they were both in the heat of passion.

He told police he was going to give her a love bite but she said no, so he didn’t.

He denied pushing her head down on his penis, and told police the area should have CCTV for them to view.

He said he and the woman walked from the fountains to the shrubs, and he didn’t drag her.

As the woman was cold he took off his shirt and put it on her, he said.

O’Driscoll admitted both of them were equally, very drunk.

He said: “She was wobbling, like. She fell backwards into the flower bed.

“She was drunk, I don’t think she was that drunk, like.

“I understood her perfectly. She was around seven or eight out of ten drunk.”

He said it had been a stupid thing to do as he was a married man.

He told police: “I wasn’t thinking straight.”

When O’Driscoll was told about the woman’s injuries he didn’t know how she cut her knee but suggested she could have been scratched in the bushes.

He said: “She never said stop. I didn’t force her to go from the area of the fountains to the flowers.

“She was 100 per cent aware of what was going on and she was a willing participant. She was actually enjoying it, like.

“She seemed sensible to me.

“If you are drunk yourself you don’t know how drunk the other person is.

“I don’t think it was appropriate in a public place.

“I didn’t take advantage of her.

“Both of us were drunk. It was a stupid thing to happen, but it happened.”

O’Driscoll has no previous convictions or cautions, the jury was told.

He is due to give his evidence to the jury after lunch, so goodbye until then.

Jason O'Driscoll denes rape charges (Image: CPS)

12:39

"I was drunk, she was drunk, we had sex ."

Detective Constable Darren Bond, the police officer in the case, is now in the witness box.

The jury is listening to a transcript of an interview of just over an hour O’Driscoll had with police at Patchway Police Centre.

O’Driscoll declined the chance of a lawyer, the jury heard.

He said he was in the night club with a friend, who he lost, he left the club and bumped into his friend.

He said he got a burger and a woman came over.

He told how the woman said she had lost her friend, and introduced herself.

“One thing led to another and we started kissing at the bus stop,” he said.

“We went for a walk and, we had sex like, in a public area.

“She said ‘It’s fine where we are, nobody can see us’.”

O’Driscoll said they were in a green area when a group of men approached, and then police.

He said: “I was drunk, she was drunk.”

O’Driscoll recounted how police pulled him away from the scene and he tried to speak to the woman so she could confirm it was consensual.

“She never replied back tome,” he told police.

O’Driscoll said he had been out celebrating his brother-in-law’s birthday and got carried away.

He said the woman had lost her friend and he told her not to worry and offered to stay with her.

O’Driscoll said the woman had sat on his lap at the bus stop, he fondled her backside and she told him: “I love the Irish.”

He said on the wall of a flower bed the woman performed oral sex on him but he was so drunk he couldn’t get an erection.

They then went into the shrubs but though he tried to have sex with her he couldn’t perform so he touched her intimately for some five minutes.

He said: “The more I was doing it the louder she was getting with the sounds.”

O’Driscoll said he had asked the woman if she would give him oral sex and she did so on her knees for about a half a minute.

But he couldn’t get an erection and he pulled her knickers to one side and gave her oral sex.

“It was just passion, like,” he said. “She liked it. She made all the noises. She seemed to be really enjoying it.”

O’Driscoll told police he then ripped the woman’s pants off with a view to having sex.

He said she lay back in the flower bed, with her legs in the air, but he couldn’t get an erection.

She then stood up, but fell back into the flower bed and he tried to have sex with her again before “poking her” with his fingers.

“I could see her, she was making all the noises, she was smiling. The one time she did say ‘That hurts’ so I stopped. I then tapped her on her vagina, to excite her.”

Jason O'Driscoll is accused of rape (Image: CPS)

12:03

Numerous injuries found on woman's body

Wendy Smith, a forensic nurse examiner at The Bridge sexual assault referral centre in Bristol, said she examined the complainant some 12 hours after the alleged rapes.

Body maps are being distributed to the jury cataloging injuries found on her.

The jury heard she had bruising on her right shoulder and a scratch on her left arm.

Her right knee had a wound with glass in and on her right foot was broken skin.

The woman’s left leg had numerous, tiny scratches as well bruises.

She had bruises to the back of her left arm and a tender area to the base of her spine.

Red scratches were on the back of her legs, the jury was told, and there was a faint red marks on her neck.

In her genital area she had red, broken skin and inside her vagina was a small red blood spot.

Ms Smith said: “Bruising was consistent with blunt force trauma.

“Scratching could be consistent with brushing against dry leaves or twigs.”

Ms Smith said injury to the woman’s genitalia could be consistent with either penile or attempted digital penetration, tampon use or an infection.

She was not able to conclude, if sexual contact took place, whether it was consensual or not.

Jason O'Driscoll is accused of raping woman in the raised flower bed in front of Broad Quay House, Bristol

11:36

Alleged victim was well over twice alcohol limit for driving

Dr Mark Piper told the court a urine sample was taken from the complainant some two hours after the alleged rapes.

She was found to have 287 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of urine. The limit for driving is 107.

She was also found to have very low levels of cocaine and cocaine metabolite which could be consistent with just “environmental exposure” to people taking cocaine - not her taking it.

Dr Piper said a back-calculation concluded that at the time of the alleged incident she would have been well over two times the legal alcohol limit for driving.

He was aware that the complainant conceded she had drank a bottle of wine and four double vodkas and coke on the night in question in October last year.

Some nine hours after the alleged incident O’Driscoll was found to have no trace of alcohol in his blood.

O’Driscoll conceded he had drank ten pints of Heineken lager and three to four bottles of Budweiser until 1am that night, and ate a burger after leaving Pryzm night club, Dr Piper said.

He told the jury: “People can have different tolerances to alcohol and different rates of alcohol elimination.”

Broad Quay House (Image: CPS)

11:07

Prosecution case is about to continue

We have had a late start in the trial due to the need to establish a live video link to Dr Mark Piper in Belfast.

He is about to give the jury toxicology evidence.

The jury is coming in now.

Jason O'Driscoll is accused of raping a woman in this flower bed at Broad Quay House in Bristol (Image: CPS)